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Webster 1913 Edition


Outlustre

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Out-lus′ter

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Out-lus′tre

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Verb.
T.
To excel in brightness or luster.
Shak.

Definition 2024


outlustre

outlustre

English

Verb

outlustre (third-person singular simple present outlustres, present participle outlustring, simple past and past participle outlustred)

  1. (poetic, transitive) To surpass in brightness or lustre; to outshine.
    • Robert Burns
      Her plumage outlustred the pride o' the spring.
    • 1869, John Edward Howell, Poems: Volume 1 (page 123)
      So she has dreams, and in her dreams, / Joy to outlustre joy by day []
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